Sabotage Rules

Sabotage Rules

Everyone enjoys good competition. At CHIditarod, that includes sabotaging other teams! There even is a prize for the best sabotage. Past winners of this coveted prize and fully sanctioned as deserving of a BEST SABOTAGE award include: Area 3 All-Stars AKA The Lady Gaga’s – handed out “skip this checkpoint” certificates that many teams fell prey to, CJ Ownz – screwed wooden ‘traffic boots’ onto wheels of unattended teams carts to prevent them from moving. Be prepared to give and receive, racers! You might become a victim even if you don’t plan to sabotage anyone else.

Here’s the deal — while we LOVE and encourage creative, non-destructive use of sabotage, there are rules…follow them to avoid being DISQUALIFIED. If you are caught doing any of the items below, you will be DISQUALIFIED! If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time.

Sabotage starts after you are outside of the starting line, after the starting gun and can continue till you cross the finish line. After that, NO SABOTAGE is allowed. Go inside and get a drink, already!

Food is not allowed to be used for sabotage. This is a food drive! Think about it. Yeah, exactly. This includes chocolate syrup, eggs, oil and flour. You’re smart, and beautiful, and far more creative than that.

Do not use anything that would leave a mess or MOOP. This is a leave no trace event. (See feathers, above).

Don’t do anything permanent. Like cutting another team’s cart in half or removing cart wheels.

U-LOCKS are BAD and will disqualify you. They create bad situations that Coreganizers then have to deal with because teams abandon their carts and create MOOP. Anything that locks, needs a key or uses chains to immobilize other teams will disqualify you. Simple as that. It will be humiliating.

DO NOT endanger each other.

DO NOT endanger anyone.

DO NOT damage public property and/or the property of checkpoints. We want to come back next year.

Don’t do anything illegal, because the laws actually do apply to you.

Teams must do their own dirty work. Only the 5 racers on each team are allowed to sabotage – no outside goombahs. Don’t be a coward!

Get Creative!!

Keep it fun.

NOTE: judges have the final say and their calls stand regardless of these rules.

PS. We survey racers every year and put together a big report on the different kinds of sabotage that occurred. See the 2014 CHIDITAROD SABOTAGE REPORT for more!